The spring day was cool and fresh with a luminous light drawn down from a mixture of cloud, sun and light rain. Many puddles edged the road in glowing arcs, yet one small, silvered pool caught my attention and drew me back. At the edge…

INT. NIGHT. DINER. ANNE (A Vivacious brunette with black patent heels and red lipstick walks in, laughing.) Syl, we’re both drinking something stronger than coffee, right? SYLVIA (Tall, but wearing flats, and long-ish hair in bangs.) If it has lemon in it, I’m fine with…

Veirdoffus Chuben… who needs it!   I have so many stories all of them true most about dogs,  as I’ve had a few. From shepherds to dobies and a mixture or two.   Let me start with our shepherd, who had a friend Benjy, a beagle he…

There was this odd sense of being watched as I walked, So I shot a glance behind me, Nothing, Looked to my left, to my right, Nothing Then finally looked above and there he sat, Perched on gnarled koa branch, staring directly at me, Unblinking,…

We sit with knees on cold concrete To stare straight up into the sky That narrow circle of the heavens Not blocked by suburbia’s lights Silver ice diamonds Peeking through dark night Reminding us of the wilderness Where our souls may take flight Not weighted…

Transplanted The creature darted across midday’s blistering parking lot, sheltering in the shade of one car, then another, as I watched through the glass of a doctor’s office door in my new home town, cool within. It was lean and low to the ground, with tufts…

There are many, One path is crowded, Another maybe stranded And there is one more, Which you will discover on your own.   Thinking that you lost it, or its too late Isn’t the solution, Yes we must stand up To open our own gates….

I am without a home, no place to call my own, no house made of no limestone, no house in no street in Bayonne.   But I live like this to say, that man needs no home on a good day, that there is another…

Playful pandas Cute and cuddly Innocent like kids Fun-dandy flights Black and white Big eyes and nose Safe animals Down the slides they go Not common for pets Hard to get Love their reaction They are an attraction My daughters room is full With them…

The first heart I ever broke was my own you could call it a ricochet I’ll go with stupid   though immature is a reasonable copout when I am feeling self-charitable   at nineteen, we were in love – not lust well defined lines obeyed…